MTSU sees rise in donations

4:50 AM,
Aug. 22, 2013

Written by

Brian Wilson
| The Tennessean

Middle Tennessee State University brought in a near-record amount of donations during the last fiscal year, according to university fundraising data released Wednesday.

Nearly $14 million was raised by the college from July 1, 2012, to June 30, the second-largest amount in school history after $14.4 million in 2001-02.

Joe Bales, the school's vice president for university advancement, said the fundraising stemmed from two major sources: the school's largest-ever amount of individual donations and a $2.5 million gift from the late James Buchanan, a Nobel Prize winner in economics and ...